analects noun, pl
/ˈan.ə.lɛkts/
a collection of ideas, extracts, or teachings.
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- problems with p-values 24 Oct 2023 [article] P-values are no gold standard. The way we use them today means p-values have a probability distribution. Just one could be an outlier, and t...
- panpsychism isn't that fun 22 Sep 2023 [article] Panpsychists reckon they’ve one-upped materialists and non-materialists in explaining how consciousness might have come to be by telling us...
- leadership consulting is usually more 'feel good' than 'do good' 17 Aug 2023 [article] Leadership consulting proposes to fix leaders, but because we can confuse ‘making leaders feel good’ with ‘making leaders better’ it usually...
- on managing magic mushroom experiences 29 Jul 2023 [article] Mushrooms change the balance between inside-out forces (the all-consuming neural networks that support the ‘self’) and outside-in forces (th...
- no action without emotion 19 Jun 2023 [article] Our nervous system transforms senses to feelings long before they become thoughts and behaviours. One can’t talk about them in isolation. Ou...
- solving the say-do-gap 12 May 2023 [article] To close the say-do-gap, we need to feel some ownership of the problem, we need the social support to support the change, and we need to kno...
- saving the planet is an illusion 15 Apr 2023 [article] Sustainability discussions often prioritise saving the planet, missing the fact that the planet doesn’t care about climate change. Maybe we...
- the value of ritual 17 Mar 2023 [article] Rituals are often dismissed, but they’re just procedures with a purpose. We all engage in ritualistic behavior—many habits and routines meet...
- mundane cults 27 Feb 2023 [article] We’ve been taught that cults are dark and scary things. But we have been fooled. The cult is a prominent building block of modern community....
- malcolm gladwell shit 14 Feb 2023 [article] The most successful facts about the world are the ones that subvert our weakly held beliefs. They look like they’re about improvement, but t...
- knowledge is just easy measurement 31 Jan 2023 [article] We often rely too heavily on the easiest measurements for a thing, calling that knowledge and then waving away the evidence that there is mo...
- everything is choice architecture 12 Jan 2023 [article] Nudging doesn’t work because people aren’t thinking hard enough. Everything is choice architecture, so look to the way you build things in t...
- abstractions as gods 28 Dec 2022 [article] We can use abstractions to get a handle on complex features of the world. By personalising centres of purpose in the world, we can better co...
- obscuring banalities 16 Dec 2022 [article] We often use complicated-sounding words to dress up simple ideas about the human experience. But this isn’t just self-indulgence. It’s also...
- trans-opportunism is boring 22 Nov 2022 [article] Focusing on edge-cases of “trans-regret” is missing the point. If you actually care about these cases, then the interesting issue are the un...
- the colour of the inhuman world 7 Nov 2022 [article] Humans imagine that there is no other way of being than the way that we conceive of, and all experiences are ultimately relative to ours. Th...
- a science of discontent 31 Oct 2022 [article] We regularly create ‘psychic predators’, choosing to concentrate on the uncontrollability of events or concentrating on events we can’t cont...
- everything is ideology 19 Sep 2022 [article] Ideologies are presented to us as distortions of reality—a synonym for ‘false belief’. But they are merely a subjective understanding of the...
- spirituality of mind 29 Aug 2022 [article] The secular world replaced the soul with a mind in the brain. Modern science of mind finds no such thing, but a collection of mini-minds whi...
- useful pharmacology 28 Jul 2022 [article] We absolutely love some drugs. Others terrify us. The difference is familiarity more than any other single thing and the result is confusion...
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